SINGAPORE: A total of 14,000 meconnect users have been advised to change their password after their accounts were accessed, Mediacorp said on Thursday (Feb 23). Mediacorp said login credentials were not leaked from the system and further investigations did not reveal any evidence that users’ persona
SINGAPORE: A total of 14,000 meconnect users have been advised to change their password after their accounts were accessed, Mediacorp said on Thursday .
"Users can be assured that no payment information has been compromised as a result of this incident," said Mediacorp. It is understood that this was likely a credential stuffing incident, a type of cyber attack in which credentials obtained from a data breach on one service are used to attempt to log in to another unrelated service. This is based on the assumption that usernames and passwords are often reused across multiple services.
They have also been strongly advised to change their passwords and check any other accounts where the same login credentials may have been used.
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